A thing not beginning and not ending is certainly continuing, one completely feeling something is one not having begun to feel anything because to have a beginning means that there will be accumulation and then gradually dying away as ending and this cannot be where a thing is a complete thing.
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Pierre looks especially troubled. A postcard from The Steins Collect at the MET. Henri Matisse to Michael Stein (Gertrude’s brother). via artistandstudio
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Computers read Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans. Triple Canopy and friends read The Making of Americans.
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“Because I didn’t say good night…”—a love note from Gertrude Stein to Alice Toklas.
What will we do this weekend without 50+ hours of The Making of Americans to read together? See the full list of last weekend’s readers at Triple Canopy’s opening at 155 Freeman.
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“I enjoy Stein most as a theorist: her ideas startle me, in whatever form they appear. (I call myself an inexpert.) One of those ideas was that becoming a classic could kill a work of art. … If Stein becomes an endpoint for literary invention — a classic — her work can’t be read in the present tense. Literature can’t rest on its laurels. I figure that if Stein were alive now, she’d be rambunctious differently. And she wouldn’t be writing like Gertrude Stein.”—novelist (and Triple Canopy board member) Lynne Tillman reconsiders the genius of Gertrude Stein, in the NY Times. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello.
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“Slowly, everyone in continuous repeating…,” Gertrude Stein reads from The Making of Americans.
Follow all the “action” at this weekend’s The Making of Americans read-a-thon on Twitter at #MakingofAmericans @Triple_Canopy. (Occupy Gossols!)
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Repeating then is always coming out of every one, always in the repeating of every one and coming out of them there is a little changing. There is always then repeating in all the millions of each kind of men and women, there is repeating then in all of them of each kind of men and women, there is repeating then in all of them of each kind of them but in every one of each kind of them the repeating is a little changing. Each one has in him his own history inside him, it is in him in his own repeating.
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There must now then be more description of the way each one is made of a substance common to their kind of them, thicker, thinner, harder, softer, all of one consistency, all of one lump, or little lumps stuck together to make a whole one cemented together sometimes by the same kind of being sometimes by the other kind of being in them, some with a lump hard at the centre liquid at the surface, some with the lump vegetablish or wooden or metallic in them. Always then the kind of substance, the kind of way when it is a mediumly fluid solid fructifying reacting substance, the way it acts then makes one kind of them of the resisting kind of them, the way another substance acts makes another kind of them the attacking kind of them. It and the state it is in each kind of them, the mixing of it with the other way of being that makes many kinds of these two kinds of them, sometime all this will have meaning.
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The Making of Americans
A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s novel with Triple Canopy
From Friday, 1/20, at 7 p.m, until Sunday, 1/22, at (very approximately) 7 p.m.
In celebration of the opening of 155 Freeman (our new home in Greenpoint), a 48-hour marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s allegedly unreadable novel The Making of Americans.
Readers include artists Amy Sillman, Erin Shirreff, and Mierle Ukeles, musicians C. Spencer Yeh and Sarah Neufeld (of Arcade Fire), novelists Lynne Tillman and Joshua Cohen, poets Charles Bernstein and Ariana Reines (who’s trying her best to read for three hours), actor Jim Fletcher (Gatsby in Gatz), playwright Lisa D’Amour, and roughly a hundred other friends.
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